Boards, backlogs, and sprints

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Azure Boards makes use of boards, backlogs, and sprints to help teams navigate all of the unknowns in projects. This helps drive work in an efficient manner becoming more predictable and meeting deadlines.

- [Instructor] There are many pitfalls…that can prevent teams from executing a project as planned.…There are surprises, excessive context switching,…nonshared goals, and silos of knowledge…that can contribute to project plans coming off the rails.…But how can we get better at this?…Azure DevOps makes use of sprints, backlogs, and boards…to help teams navigate all of these unknowns…and get better over time.…A backlog stands for a prioritized list of features…that contains short descriptions…of the functionality that's desired in the project.…

A sprint is a period of time during…which specific work has to be completed.…When you hear me refer to iterations,…or see iterations in the tools, I'm referring to sprints,…which is the most commonly term used.…In a nutshell, the proper use of these two concepts…can guarantee that the right work is delivered…at the right time.…Here you can see the first attempt at planning a sprint.…Most likely, the first time you schedule a sprint,…the reality will be different to the actual plan.…

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11/15/2018

Azure DevOps is a bundle of services to help developers ship high-quality producers faster. It includes CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines), visual reporting tools (Azure Boards), and code repositories (Azure Repos) for code management and version control. This course teaches you everything you need to know to get up and running using this exciting new DevOps solution. Jose Miguel Rady Allende explains how to use Azure DevOps to track work, share code, and host, build, and deploy software in the cloud. He tackles Azure DevOps from a project management perspective that incorporates agile methodologies like scrum and Kanban. He also shows how to customize Azure DevOps so it works best for your team, by adding extensions and integrating productivity tools such as Slack and Office.